Pleasantville High School - Breeze Yearbook (Pleasantville, NJ)

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TO THE CLASS OF inner . . . The achievements of your class have added a little more lustre to the history of Pleasantville High School, and in turn, PHS has given you a start in this wonderfully challenging business of living. There are many joys in store for you, but none that will eclipse the experiences of high school. Mine has been the privilege of sharing with you your hcartaches and your satisfac- tions and of growing with you in knowledge, in character and in friendships. This book will be more to me than a record of your classy it will represent your personality as a group and as individualsg it will remind me of the place you have won in my heart. Do not listen to the prophets of doom. Take counsel with your inner self-with the voice of the natural optimism of youth. Faith and courage overcome all things. Youth has served its mission in every generation. These words were written long ago for those who would make every day count in the art of living: Look fo fbi: day, for it is life. In il.r brief course lie all lhe rerilier of your exirlenreg lhe blirr of growlh, lhe glory of action, the Jplendor of beauty. For yerlerday if but a dream, and lomorrow if only a virionp bill Ioday, well lived, maker every yerlerday a dream of happinen and every tomorrow a virion of hope. May all your yesterdays be dreams of happiness and all your tomorrows visions of h . ope Sincerely, Prinripal i' Ti Q 'S 1 4 l 9

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1-4 A ' I MY DEAR YOUNG PEOPLE . . . Congratulations upon your graduation from high school! In these days when the forces of Communism and totalitarian ideologies would seek our destruction, and men in high places would sell our birth rights for a mess of pottage, I feel compelled to speak plainly of your great responsibilities. In you and in the many thousands of young people graduating from our high schools and colleges lie the hope and future of our great nation. Yours is the challenge to pre- serve its greatness, its principles of freedom wherein lie the preservation of human dig- nity, its faith in God which long has been its greatest bulwark. These are the principles for which men have been willing to die-at Valley Forge and Gettysburg, in the Ar- gonne and the Black Forest, at Dunkirk and the Battle of the Bulge, in the South Pacific and in Korea. These were the men who died to keep America free. Yours is the challenge that they shall not have died in vain! Yours is the responsi- bility to accept this great challenge. If young people everywhere will decide never to exchange our great heritage for money or power, if you will discharge your civic duties with a sense of seriousness and responsibility, if you will rear your families in the solid faith of our fathers which has been our nation's source of greatness and power. if you will stop to count your privileges under the democratic way of life and be de- termined to preserve them, then no force from without and no threat from within will be strong enough to destoy this nation and its principles of freedom which are so dear to the hearts of all good thinking Americans. This is your challenge, and the challenge to all young people graduating in the class of 1954. Sincerely, Superiuleuderll

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION The Board of Education is a group of Mainland citizens interested in the welfare of the students in this community. XVithout the aid of these men and women, who work untiringly for the students and faculty, we would be at a great loss. XY'e, the Senior Class of 1954, wish to express our appreciation for the assistance given us by the Board, The XX'.lSl'llI'lf.IfOI'l trip would have been impossible without their co-operation. The members of the Board of lfdutation are, from left to right: Mortimer XVare, Sc i'i' c'f.H'-I iff Ike Bfrmf Mrs. Robert Breunig XVilliam Schwab james XVeeks, Pwiirfezzt Harry XVarren R. P. Kennedy Harry Souchel jerry Vigue. Cliff'